Mount Vernon

Mount Vernon plantation was not only the beloved home of George Washington, the first president of the United States, but also the source of much of his wealth and the mark of his status as a leading member of ...

Mount Vernon

Mount Vernon plantation was not only the beloved home of George Washington, the first president of the United States, but also the source of much of his wealth and the mark of his status as a leading member of the ...

Mount Vernon Place Historic District

Mount Vernon Place Historic District is comprised of four rectangular parks-- East and West Mount Vernon Place and North and South Washington Place. These garden parks, and the houses that line them, form the setting for the Washington Monument, the ...

The Mount Vernon Dredge

In its first five years, Alder Gulch produced between 30 and 60 million in gold. By 1874 about 35,000 people lived in the gulch. Times ran out but the gold never did. You can still find it here in the ...

Mount Vernon's Historic Square

Mt. Vernon’s public square was laid out in 1816. The present court house, built in 1876 at a cost of $95,000, dominates the public square with its Italianate-style elegance. The brick and stone building is lavishly decorated with bracketed projecting ...

Mount Vernon Avenue

The commercial area of Mount Vernon Avenue originated in the early 1900s as a safe haven for African-American people segregated from the primarily white community of the time. Not permitted to enter many businesses in downtown Columbus during the 1940s, ...

Mount Vernon School

District 78

Built around 1860 as one room schoolhouse. Served until 1928 as one of four township schools. Renovated as Chatham Township Hall 1959.

Marker is at the intersection of Southern Blvd and Fairmount Avenue, on the left when traveling south on ...

Nearby On This Tract of Land Called Mount Vernon

Stood the home of Colonial Patriot

John Wallace, Junior

February 15, 1755 - May 1811

Founder

of

Waynesboro, Pennsylvania - 1797

The town laid out in 1797 was named Waynesburg until 1831.

The plot included the original "settlement" which came to be

called Wallacetown in honor of John ...

Mount Vernon Place United Methodist Church

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The Washington Monument, Baltimore. This view of Mount Vernon Place, circa 1848, shows the home of Charles and Phoebe Key Howard ot the right of the monument.

Conceived as a "Cathedral of Methodism" the Mount Vernon Place United ...

The Mount Vernon Memorial Highway

1732 – 1932

The Mount Vernon Memorial Highway

was authorized by Congress May 23, 1928

as an activity of

the United States Commission

for the celebration of the

two hundredth anniversary

of the birth of

George Washington

The highway was designed and constructed

under the direction of

the United States Department ...